WORLD MISSION SUNDAY

Pope Benedict XVI, Shepherd of Truth

"PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL"

The month of October, with the celebration of World Mission Sunday, offers to diocesan
and parish communities, institutes of consecrated life, ecclesial movements and the entire
People of God an opportunity to renew the commitment to proclaim the Gospel and to give
pastoral activities greater missionary perspective.

"LIVE INTENSELY"

This annual event invites us to live intensely the liturgical and catechetical, charitable and
cultural processes through which Jesus Christ summons us to the banquet of His word and of
the Eucharist, to taste the gift of His presence,
to be formed at His school and to live ever
more closely united to Him, our teacher and
Lord.

" CREDIBLE WITNESS"

Only on the basis of this encounter with
the Love of God that changes life can we live
in communion with Him and with one another
and offer our brothers and sisters a creditible
witness, accounting for the hope that is in us
(cf. 1 Pt 3:15).

MARY AND MISSION

...In many countries the various ecclesial activities are resumed in October, after the
summer break, and the Church invites us to learn from Mary, by praying the Holy Rosary, to
contemplate the Father's plan of love for humanity, to love her as He loves her. Is not this also
the meaning of mission?

"SONS AND DAUGHTERS"

... The Father calls us to be sons and daughters loved in the beloved Son, and to recognize
that we are all brothers and sisters in Him Who is the gift of salvation for humanity divided by
discord and sin, and the revealer of the true face of God Who "so loved the world that He gave
His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life" (Jn 3:16).

"AWARENESS OF THE CALL"

... Awareness of the call to proclaim the Gospel not only encourages every individual
member of the faithful but also all diocesan and parish communities to integral renewal and ever
greater openness to missionary cooperation among the Churches, to promote the proclamation
of the Gospel in the heart of every person. of every people, culture, race and nationality in
every place.